At least 52 regime troops, including 11 officers, from coastal Tartus province were killed in May by rebels and the Islamic State, regime news feeds said.
Residents of Tartus, the regime's powerful militant supplier, say no men left in the city. Funerals are everywhere and every day. The daily bloodshed has pushed supporters of al-Assad to demand a peace solution ending the 6-year-old war.
The mourning posters have been sweeping the roads, streets and pro-regime social media.
Tartus suffered decades of negligence and constant resentment in comparison with the next-door city of Latakia where services and tourism and fortune.
The Syrian regime has not published official figures on its war dead. Syrian state television mostly fails to broadcast news of Alawite soldiers killed, instead playing up the deaths of their Sunni comrades, in a bid to shore up Sunni support, according to the Telegraph.
The peaceful demonstrations that ended up with deadly war carried out by the Syrian regime and key regional players has killed at least 465,000 people, including 150,000 children and has displaced over 12 million people
